entanglement
Americannoun
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the act of entangling.
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the state of being entangled.
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something that entangles; snare; involvement; complication.
Other Word Forms
- interentanglement noun
Etymology
Origin of entanglement
Example Sentences
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They face threats from vessel strikes to entanglement in fishing gear on their long migration routes.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
After the brief romantic entanglement, female 1H1 settled down with male 374 and they became the second pair of breeding ospreys in southern England since 1847.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Pedro Ornelas explains, "You get the topology for free, from the entanglement in space. It was always there, it just had to be found."
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
In this process, called entanglement, qubits share the burden of calculating probabilities—leading to faster, nonlinear computing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Since they don’t have any kind of survival instinct it’s no big deal for them to eventually pull themselves free of such an entanglement, ripping off great big swatches of themselves to do so.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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